B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, 1991 M.S. Cornell University, 1993 Ph.D. Cornell University, 1996

Synthesis, characterization, and manipulation of novel functional nanomaterials (metals and semiconductors); their long-range ordered assemblies and related nanoscale electron transfer; applications in fuel cells, photovoltaics and electronic devices

Physical Chemistry, Nanomaterials

The research program in the Chen group is centered around electron transfer chemistry at the nanoscale. More specifically, we are interested in the electron transfer properties of nanometer-sized functional particles and their organized assemblies. Our strategy is to employ a series of chemical as well as physical manipulations to shed light onto the molecular origin of these unprecedented electrochemical phenomena.

Wei Chen, Shaowei Chen, Functional Nanometer-Sized Clusters of Transition Metals, Royal Society of Chemistry: London, 2014.

Zhi-You Zhou, Shaowei Chen, ""Impacts of Surface Functionalization on the Electrocatalytic Activity of Noble Metals and Nanoparticles"", in Molecular Interactions, Aurelia Meghea, ed., InTech (ISBN 978-953-51-0079-9), 2012, pp. 105 - 124.

Shaowei Chen, ""Impacts of Metal-Ligand Bonding Interactions on the Electron-Transfer Chemistry of Transition-Metal Nanoparticles"", in Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 23, Allen J. Bard and Cindy G. Zoski, Eds., Taylor and Francis, 2009.

Shaowei Chen and Wenbin Lin, Eds., Functional Nanomaterials: A Chemistry and Engineering Perspective, The Press of the University of Science and Technology of China: Hefei, CHINA, 2008.

Shaowei Chen, ""Electronic Conductivity of Nanoparticle Solid Thin Films"", in Handbook of Electrochemical Nanotechnology, Yuehe Lin and H. S. Nalwa, Eds., American Scientific Publishers: New York, 2009 (ISBN 1-58883-039-X).

Shaowei Chen, ""Practical Electrochemical Cells"", in Handbook of Electrochemistry, Cynthia G. Zoski, Ed., Elsevier: New York, 2007.

Shaowei Chen, ""Langmuir-Blodgett Thin Films of Gold Nanoparticle Molecules: Fabrication of Crosslinked Networks and Interfacial Dynamics"", in Nanoparticle Assemblies and Superstructures, Nicholas Kotov, Ed., Marcel Dekker: New York, 2006, pp. 577 - 600.

Jin Z. Zhang, Zhong L. Wang, Jun Liu, Shaowei Chen, and Gangyu Liu, Self-Assembled Nanostructures, Kluwer Academic: New York, 2003 (ISBN: 0-306-47299-6).